“anjum katyal”

These essays explore the intricate connections between worship and performance, the sacred and the profane. In the process they challenge the common assumptions about worship as being simply about religious feeling, and open up the multifaceted possibilities of complex layering and overlapping that ... More

In Without Compass Or Map, nineteen men and women, all professionals in the field ofculture and the arts, from seven countries across Asia, attempt to engage withfour diverse cultural organizations by studying them in their own environments,to better understand their histories, their achievements, a... More

Rudali is a powerful short story by Mahasweta Devi. Revolving around the life of Sanichari, a poor lowcaste woman, it is an ironic tale of exploitation, struggle and survival. In 1992, it was adapted into a play by Usha Ganguli, a leading theatre director of Calcutta, and instantly became one of the... More

These tales, brewed in the imagination of a master story-teller, make us look at the Mahabharata with new eyes, insisting as they do on the inclusion, within the master narrative, of the fates and view points of those previously unrepresented therein: women and the underclass. ... More

'Fragments and shaows' of contacts and connexions, rediscovering and relearning their memories even as the inedcapable separations and drifts take over, and the vivid intensities of both the touch and the desire define the landscape that Anjum Katyal, a young woman poet, and Chittrovanu Mazumdar, a ... More

The 1990s. It’s raining in Shillong. Eight-year-old Sophie Das has just realized she is adopted, but there is also the baby kicking inside her mother’s stomach whom she is dying to meet. IAS aspirant Aman Moondy is planning a first-of-its-kind Happening and praying the lovely Concordella will co... More

Japanese is one of the toughest languages to master -- but not with this handy book! This book will teach you the fundamentals of the language in no time, and before you know it you will be able to speak and write Japanese as fluently as your own language. A must for tourists who needs an easy, com... More

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Orient Longman ICSE Science, a new series of six textbooks and six workbooks for the secondary school level, is based on the syllabi prescribed by the Council for Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi, for and after 2008. This series is an extension of the Orient Longman ICSE Science for ... More